Mohammed Almarzoug

Curriculum vitae

Mohammed is currently a doctoral student in the Seismology and Wave Physics group at ETH Zurich. He obtained his Bachelor’s degree in Geophysics from the University of Houston, Houston, Texas, in 2017. Subsequently, he worked for Saudi Aramco at the Advanced Research Center in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, for four and a half years. At his work, he focused on developing new workflows and methods to acquire and process seismic data. A few of the main projects that he worked on were modeling distributed acoustic data using refraction interferometry, 3D near-surface characterization of reverse vertical seismic profiling data, and quantification of seismic structural uncertainty associated with a complex near surface. Mohammed completed his Master’s degree in Earth Sciences with a Major in Geophysics from ETH Zurich in 2024. His thesis evaluated the potential of using a full-waveform approach in both deterministic and probabilistic frameworks for ambient noise tomography and noise source characterization and was completed under the supervision of Prof. Andreas Fichtner, Dr. Scott Keating, Dr. Daniel Bowden, and Dr. Dirk-Jan van Manen.

His current research focuses on evaluating the possibility of leveraging distributed acoustic sensing in urban settings to model the subsurface in 3D using earthquakes. A higher-resolution model could prove to be very beneficial to assess the seismic hazards in cities with active seismicity.